MATTER Moments: April 2025
MATTER Moments explores the latest news and updates in April 2025.
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Zimbabwe
Celebrating 25 Years of Impact: MATTER’s Journey and Bold Vision for the Future
2025 marks a quarter century since MATTER’s founding. During the course of this year, we’ll highlight stories of impact and the people who were inspired to join this mission over the last 25 years. We’ll also take a peek into MATTER’s exciting future and invite you to join us as we continue our mission of
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Empowering Women Farmers: The Chidobe Chaya Processing Center is Here!
We’re thrilled to announce that the Chidobe Chaya Processing Center is now operational!
This innovative facility is run by the Chidobe women’s farming co-op and transforms surplus Chaya crops into marketable products like herbal teas, nutritional supplements, and smoothie powders.
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Grateful Together: How You Helped Change Lives
Dear Friends, As we approach the Thanksgiving holiday, I’m reflecting upon the many blessings we’ve experienced over the past year at MATTER. We have so much to be thankful for – beginning with YOU, our faithful partners, donors and volunteers. Together, we impacted nearly three million lives this year with improved healthcare, nutrition, education, and
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Stand-Up For A Cause Highlights
Last Friday, MATTERnation came together for an extraordinary evening, Stand-Up for a Cause, united by one powerful word: “Yes.” Yes to celebrating the incredible impact we made in 2024, yes to the lives already transformed, and yes to the bold vision of changing even more lives in 2025. And what a resounding “yes” it was!
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Revolutionizing Education + Job Creation = A Brighter Future for Zimbabwe
“We’re really not interested in the status quo of education. We are about revolutionizing education. It’s a big aspiration and something that needs to take place across the world and is taking place. We just want to be the ones to bring it to those places that are often forgotten.” – Jeremy Newhouse, Chief of
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Healing in the Heart of Zimbabwe: How a Remote Hospital Changed Everything
It was the middle of the Zimbabwe wilderness, during the heat of the day, when a weary and desperate trio stumbled toward their destination. Two parents supported their adult son, trying to help him stand upright on a severely burned leg. Earlier that day, during an epileptic seizure, he had fallen into the family’s cook
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Stand-Up For A Cause Featuring Learnmore Jonasi
Learnmore Jonasi Live at MATTER in Minnesota on November 15, 2024 Join us for an unforgettable evening to support MATTER at Stand-Up For A Cause! Featuring the hilarious Zimbabwe comic, Learnmore Jonasi, whose spectacular audition on America’s Got Talent won him a Golden Buzzer. Along with award-winning standup comedy, enjoy an open bar, complimentary food,
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Skateboards and Smiles: Robby’s Vision for Samkele Park
When Robby Kimmel stepped off a plane onto Zimbabwe soil in 2023, he had no idea how his life was about to change. Having recently graduated from university with a degree in business and finance, he was thousands of miles from the centers of commerce where his peers were beginning their climb up the corporate
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Chaya Kickstarter Campaign Launches!
For the last several years, we’ve been sharing the remarkable journey of the Chaya Tree Project in Zimbabwe. What began as a visionary idea by our dear friend Sandi Young to improve health in Zimbabwe through Chaya has blossomed into a thriving network of women’s farming cooperatives around the country. These resilient women are not
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